Yeah. "Medical devices" were created to free up the doctors from having to treat "hysterical paroxysms" manually. Took them until the end of the Edwardian Era to finally make the connection of what was going on ... "OMGZ WIMMEN HAZ ORGAZIMS 2!!!"

Yeah. "Medical devices" were created to free up the doctors from having to treat "hysterical paroxysms" manually. Took them until the end of the Edwardian Era to finally make the connection of what was going on ... "OMGZ WIMMEN HAZ ORGAZIMS 2!!!"

Fun fact: vibrators were the fifth electrical appliance to be made available for retail sale.

Fun fact: vibrators were the fifth electrical appliance to be made available for retail sale.

Exactly right. I think they were developed from the "medical devices", which were floor-mounted steam-powered monstrosities. I'm not sure if I'd be eager to try something that hardcore, but it really wasn't until the motion picture was developed and the first porn was made (Edwardian era, as mentioned) that showed the items being used for non-medical purposes.

Exactly right. I think they were developed from the "medical devices", which were floor-mounted steam-powered monstrosities. I'm not sure if I'd be eager to try something that hardcore, but it really wasn't until the motion
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Exactly right. I think they were developed from the "medical devices", which were floor-mounted steam-powered monstrosities. I'm not sure if I'd be eager to try something that hardcore, but it really wasn't until the motion picture was developed and the first porn was made (Edwardian era, as mentioned) that showed the items being used for non-medical purposes.

And (if I recall correctly) it was right after those pornos were made and people put two and two together that you could no longer find vibrators for sale in catalogs. LAME.

I've always kind of wanted to go back in time with a bunch of modern toys and show them to the people of the old days. Probably horrify the masses and end up getting myself lynched.

I love posts like this. I knew that they did use them for medicinal purposes, but I had no idea that they didn't realize women had orgasms!! Sigh... such sad people in those times.

Most medical textbooks at the time didn't even have the clitoris as part of the women's genital diagrams ... now, if the female orgasm didn't exist, why did they have to edit out that bit of anatomy ... ?

I love posts like this. I knew that they did use them for medicinal purposes, but I had no idea that they didn't realize women had orgasms!! Sigh... such sad people in those times.

When people say "they" it usually means "only some very vocal people." Women knew they had orgasms, and their partners, if they were worth their salt, knew they were having them, too.

Freud talked about the female orgasm, but divided them up into "clitoral" orgasms (meaning anything that directly stimulated the clit) and "vaginal orgasms" (meaning only orgasms from Penis in Vagina sex.) He said "clitoral orgasms were childlike, and neurotic" and psychoanalytically mature women had only "vaginal orgasms." What he was really saying was, "I shouldn't have to give oral sex, bitch. Get off when I do or you're on your own."